Summary:
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Vesafb doesn't work after kexec : nothing new is displayed on console, the
previous shutdown messages remain on screen. However X can start normally.

note: IRQ 11 (used by the video card) is disabled after kexec (see logs below).


Opened bugme@osdl

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4624



# diff dmesg-before-kexec dmesg-after-kexec
3c3
<  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
---
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000100 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
5d4
<  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
28c27
< Kernel command line: root=LABEL=root  resume=/dev/hdb6 vga=791 init 1
---
> Kernel command line: root=LABEL=root  resume=/dev/hdb6 vga=791 init 1
30c29
< Detected 1410.244 MHz processor.
---
> Detected 1410.555 MHz processor.
35c34
< Memory: 256204k/262064k available (1451k kernel code, 5204k reserved, 773k
data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
---
> Memory: 256332k/262064k available (1451k kernel code, 5200k reserved, 773k
data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
37c36
< Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2822.17 BogoMIPS (lpj=1411087)
---
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2822.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=1411074)
52,53c51,52
< ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c20)
< evxfevnt-0096 [03] acpi_enable           : Transition to ACPI mode successful
---
> ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0620)
> evxfevnt-0084 [03] acpi_enable           : System is already in ACPI mode
71c70
< ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
---
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
88,94d86
< vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xd0880000, using 3072k, total 65536k
< vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
< vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0eb9
< vesafb: scrolling: redraw
< vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
< Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
< fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
147c139,140
< BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
---
> BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
> EDD information not available.